Improvement in burial-casket handles



ALG. CHAPMAN.

Burial Casket Handles. I No. 137,289 I PatentedAprill,l873.

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ALFRED G. CHAPMAN, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO HENRY E. NILES, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURlAL-CASKET HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,289, dated April 1, 1873; application filed January 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED G. CHAPMAN, of East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket- Handles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is a face view of my improved handle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the same, in section, through the dotted line a: m. Fig. 4 is a view of the same, in section, through the dotted line y y.

The device is, as its name indicates, a handle for burial-caskets. The parts are all metallic.

Theinvention consistsin providingaknuckle which sits upon the ear and covers up the teats in which the lifting arm is pivoted. It further consists in making a single pin to serve as a fastening for attaching the knuckle to the teats and as a pivot or hinge for the liftingarm.

The letter a indicates a plate fitting against, and designed to be fastened to, the side of the casket, commonly called the ear. From it rise two teats, b b, in which is pivoted, by means of the screw-pin c, the arm d, to the other extremity of which the rail 0, or other suitable device for the hand of the bearer, is fastened. The pivoted end of the arm 61 is so shaped that when the arm is swung upward to about the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, this inner end of the arm strikes against the ear a and prevents the arm from further rise, this being the position of the arm when the casket is being carried by the bearers. A plate, f, made separate from the ear a, commonly called a knuckle, fits upon the ear and rises so as to cover and hide from sight the teats b b and the pivoted end of the arm. It is secured in place by the screw-pin 0, this pin being thus made to perform two offices, to wit, serving as a pivot for the arm d and also securing the knuckle in place.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the knuckle f with the car a, the knuckle being so shaped as to cover and conceal the teats b b, all constructed and arranged substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. Thecornbination of the screw-pin 0 with the knuckle f, teats b 1), arm d, and ear a, in such shape that the pin performs the double office of a pivot for the arm d and of securing the knuckle in place, the Whole constructed and arranged substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

ALFRED G. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

SAML. L. STRONG, J OHN S. MARKHAM. 

